In the Wake of Ferguson: A Multispecies History Main Menu Explore 'In the Wake' Inspired by George Ekem Ferguson’s expeditions and map-making, this digital humanities website centers the world of relations within which he worked. Sources In the Wake of Ferguson uses two texts as points of departure for this project. The British Gold Coast, A Colony in the Making In 1957, the Gold Coast and British Togoland became Ghana when they became independent. George Ekem Ferguson The Gold Coast cartographer and administrator Seeing-Man - In the Wake of Ferguson Those whose imperial eyes passively look out and possess Centers of Calculation - In the Wake of Ferguson This section focuses on institutions in the metropole that assembled knowledge forms that were collected in the Gold Coast Methods for Transcending Ferguson This section thinks against Ferguson. Resources Annotated Bibliography and lesson plans for teaching In the Wake of Ferguson Hwemudua art + history Lab

Acknowledgement

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Many of the photos were sources from Creative Commons. 

Data on British mapmaking : Jamie McGowan, Conventional Sign, Imperial Designs: Mapping the Gold Coast, 1874-1957. PhD diss. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2013: 11.

Data on British treaties: G.E. Metcalfe, Great Britain and Ghana Documents of Ghana History 1807 and 1957 (London:Thomas Nelson & Sons Ltd, 1964: 746 - 749). 


Source of the maps (the evolution of Gold Coast territory): Raymond Bagulo Bening, Ghana Regional Boundaries and National Integration (Accra: Ghana University Press, 1999): 13 - 60. 

Tano photos: Dennis M. Warren Papers, RS 13/32/52, Special Collections Department, Iowa State University Library.

Text: kwabena agyare yeboah 

Wa Photos: Isaac Gyamfi A.